Installing molly-guard

Posted by Nico Golde in
Tuesday, June 26. 2007

Yeah I now did an aptitude install molly-guard (I guess most sysadmins know this tool, thanks mika for the hint) after I
halt'ed modprobe.de by accident (Strato dedicated server). I was also able to reboot my file server at home 2 times last week because of.... ssh, well and of course bad shell prompts, inattention etc.

The tool is basically a replacement for halt, reboot and shutdown to prevent such accidents. To give you an impression what this looks like:

[root@bone] /home/nion/ halt
W: molly-guard: SSH session detected!
Please type in hostname of the machine to halt:

UPDATE from madducks comment:
Please note that etch's molly-guard has a bug that hits people running shutdown -h: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426107.

I suggest to install version 0.3-1 from testing, which shall be in etch r2 soon.

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Please note that etch's molly-guard has a bug that hits people running shutdown -h: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426107

I suggest to install version 0.3-1 from testing, which shall be in etch r2 soon.

#1 martin (Homepage) on 2007-06-27 11:43 (Reply)

Hello,

molly-guard does not provide protection at the moment if you use sudo.
Untill then, I advise to edit /usr/sbin/shutdown and add :
PRETEND_SSH=1

BR

#2 Eric DANNIELOU (Homepage) on 2007-08-25 06:44 (Reply)

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